All posts by Patrick Domingues
New Phishing Trick That Can Bypass Email URL Filters
There is a new Phishing trick that hackers have come up with, this trick is to make Office documents carrying malicious links undetectable by many email security services. They go about deleting the links from the document’s relationship file (xml.rels). This phishing trick has been seen by security professionals during email spam campaigns, these URL’s…
UniFi Video Surveillance System Is The Best
The UniFi Video Surveillance System has the best balance between flexibility and ease of use. Ubiquiti designed UniFi Video to provide continuous monitoring capabilities with a ton of options to fine-tune and customize both the video recorder system and network cameras. The short fall is that UniFi Video does not yet support geo-fencing or advanced…
Free PC Patch Manager
Patch My PC Updater Overview Patch My PC Updater is a free, easy-to-use program that keeps over 300 apps up to date on your computer. This software not only checks for out of date software it can also install the software automatically for you. To stay safe online you have to keep your third party…
Users Affected by 19 Year Old WinRAR Flaw
WinRAR urges to update one of the worlds most popular compression software that had a flaw that 500 Million users in the past 19 years have been affected by and they finally released a patch for this flaw. What is the vulnerability? The UNACEv2.DLL vulnerability was discovered security researchers from Check Point Software and they…
Data Breach At UW Medicine
The data breach at SEATTLE’s UW Medicine exposed around 974,000 patient records. The files that web public did not contain anything too revealing, no medical or financial information or Social Security Numbers were available to be read. The content that was exposed were names, medical record numbers and descriptions. How did this happen? A public…
Have I Been Compromised Online?
So, your clicking around on the internet and come across news of compromised companies and now your wondering have I been compromised online? Are my usernames and passwords available online? Unfortunately, the answer to your question is your information is probably in the dark web up for grabs for anyone to take. Data breaches…
Trickbot can now obtain your remote access credentials
The Banking Trojan called Trickbot has an updated ability and can now harvest your username and passwords from remote access type applications. This would allow the hacker to remote into systems using the username and password obtained. TrendMicro Analysts stated “The malware arrives via an email disguised as a tax incentive notification from a major…
Best Home Lab For SysAdmins
This home lab is great for anyone who is just starting off their IT career and looking to get a step up in knowledge by chasing after it. If your a SysAdmin already get yourself a lab anyways because the more you know the better. Having a Home Lab builds your confidence because you obtain…
Best Wireless Access Point Is The UniFi UAP AC Pro
The best wireless access point in my option is the Ubiquiti UniFi UAP AC Pro. You get Enterprise grade equipment for the fraction of the cost. I have been deploying these access points for 3+ years and feedback from clients are nothing but great. They provide awesome coverage and they have great performance. The The…
HIPAA Compliance Checklist
Are you looking for a HIPAA Compliance Checklist to self-evaluate your practice or organization? I have created an easy to read document that does just that. This HIPAA Compliance Checklist was built upon a previous post called: HIPAA Compliance Program Tips which spoke about The Seven Fundamental Elements of an Effective Compliance Program Implementing written…